Hello, Chandler Cousins!
Im looking for information about Joel Burnham Chandler and his wife Harriet
Parker, who went west to Stephens Point, Wisconsin before the Civil War with
their little daughter Louisa Maria Chandler, born in 1851 in Lowell,
Massachusetts. Louisa married David W. Switzer on July 19, 1869 in Clinton,
Iowa. Louisa and David were my great grandparents.
I do not know anything about Joel Burnham Chandler except the family tradition
that he was also from the Essex County area of Massachusetts.
Harriet Parker was the daughter of Asa Parker (March 17, 1791- April 7, 1814)
and Elizabeth Richardson (b. June 16, 1797), both of Dracut. I have a drawing
of Harriet Parker Chandler looking sad and serene, and an old photograph of
Harriet with her sister and their eight brothers, the brothers looking solemn
and the sisters tired - perhaps too much laundry and cooking for all those
brothers?
Can anyone shed any light on this mystery? I would love to track down those
eight brothers and hear from Chandler cousins!
Many thanks!
Pollysyrch